Paderborn & Aachen – Mobile payment starts to revolutionize the way we pay. Regardless of already existing contactless communication standards such as NFC and EMVCo, the payment service providers and terminal vendors are still coping with teething problems resulting from the large number of smartphones, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and technologies used. Test solution manufacturer COMPRION and test service provider P3 have teamed up to develop a dedicated test tool – the nano tracer – making sure that NFC based payment transactions can be monitored at the POS.
Markus Michelt, Project Coordinator at P3 explains, “The nano tracer is a testing solution hidden in a smartphone case which is able to trace payment transactions under real-life conditions. While carrying out a common mobile purchase at the point-of-sale, nano tracer captures the contactless transaction data between the smartphone and the POS terminal. The whole tracing process happens in a very inconspicuous way without affecting the daily business and without influencing the payment transaction itself.”
Once collected, COMPRION’s monitoring software processes, displays and analyzes the communication data. Ralph Kamp, Product Manager at COMPRION explicates, “Our nano tracer helps engineers to identify and solve issues that might be observed in the field. The analyzing software visualizes if communication failures were caused either by the mobile phone or the POS terminal.”
The smartphone case will be available as a standard for Samsung Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6S but can also be customized for other smartphones.
About COMPRION
COMPRION is the worldwide leading manufacturer of test solutions for mobile phones, chipsets, POS terminals, (e)UICCs, and their interfaces. Covering contact-based and contactless technologies COMPRION provides their expertise to multiple industries, especially telecommunications, payments and M2M. Our involvement in a number of standardization and certification bodies enables us to integrate the latest standards and requirements into our high quality products. As COMPRION test systems are renowned for the most accurate measurement capabilities, the company serves all top mobile phone, terminal, card and chipset manufacturers as well as mobile network operators and test houses. COMPRION also acts as technological consultant supporting many key players in the market.
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P3 is a leading international consulting, engineering and testing services company, which has over 3,000 employees worldwide and posted a turnover of around 300 million EUR (incl. P3 Voith Aerospace, now P3 engineering) in 2015. In the telecommunications sector, the company provides a broad portfolio of independent technical and management consulting services including network planning, engineering, end-to-end optimization, security, QoS and QoE testing, international benchmarking, device testing and acceptance services. P3’s clients include network operators, equipment vendors, device manufacturers, public safety organizations and regulatory authorities around the world; the company’s own experts combine strong technical know-how with many years of management experience
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